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Jane is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetings. She is represented by the Executive Speakers Bureau and Speakers Express, part of the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum. This section of the website provides updates on where Jane will be speaking and attending conferences and meetings.

Dr. John Whyte, CMO of WebMD, talk through the many fiscal impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on U.S. patients, and future prospects for health citizenship post-pandemic, featured on the "Coronavirus In Context" channel.

Lauren Scherwin of the Disney Institute and Sean Hand of KPMG hosted Jane on The Furlough Network on 5 May 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic to brainstorm health (physical, mental and financial) and resilience on a Zoom-cast covering a host of Everyday Life challenges -- with frequent laughter along the way.

"COVID-19 is uncharted territory," writes Beth Snyder Bulk in FiercePharma, "an unprecedented global public health crisis amid a global economic collapse. Consumers who already felt 'screwed' by increasing insurance deductibles and drug co-pays before COVID-19 are now under even further economic stress, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn said. From the consumers’ point of view? 'This is a public health issue and we're broke,'" I soberly noted.

Listen in on a very engaging, informative and timely discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Clayborne (@DrElizPC), Saurabh Jha (@roguerad), Ian Morrison (@SecCurve) and me (@HealthyThinker) led by Matthew Holt (@BoltyBoy) conducted on 9th April. We brainstormed where the COVID-19 crisis is right now and what it’s going to mean both now and in the near future.

Jane will join global leaders to brainstorm big ideas, discussing her concepts on moving from health consumer to health citizen as outlined in her book, HealthConsuming. This annual meeting is held in Cascais, Portugal, convening thinkers in politics, finance, education, business, government, theology, science, and of course, health/care.

As a member of HIMSS for nearly her entire career, Jane will once again attend HIMSS in Orlando for updates and brainstorms on new health tech for patients, consumers, and caregivers that bolsters self-care and the IoT of health for the home.

Jane brainstormed the growing role of health care consumers at #CES2020 with Lygeia Ricciardi -- who's not only Carium's Chief Transformation Officer, but a long-time and cherished collaborator of Jane's. Here's a link to the video...

GlobalData named the top 10 influencers in health-tech including Jane along with nine other valued colleagues in the field. So gratified to be part of this great group of friends who influence me, too.

John Lynn (@TechGuy) and Colin Hung (@Colin_Hung) brainstorm what John learned at #CES2020 seeking digital heatlh goodness -- pros, cons, and wild cards. My book, HealthConsuming, was featured in the discussion, as John and I met up at the Consumer Electronics Show for our annual face-to-face at the big show.

The tea leaves aren't at all clear for health care in America for the next year....so I look at the tectonic forces of politics, society, technology and economics to sort out certainties, uncertainties and wild cards in this month's Medecision Liberation blog.

HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen will be featured in Gary's Book Club at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA.tech), will interview Jane on-stage, host a book signing, and sell the book in the CES bookstore throughout the conference of 170,000 global attendees.

Once again, Jane will spend the week in Las Vegas at CES, the annual gathering of 100,000+ tech-loving folks, to focus on digital health and the growing IoT for health/care. Follow Jane on Twitter, in Health Populi, and speaking at the event and the Digital Health Summit.

At the AHIP Consumer Experience and Digital Health Forum, Jane will co-present the results of HealthMine's 2019 Medicare Advantage survey of beneficiaries covering how older people look at their health care, health plans, digital health tools, social determinants and financial wellness. Jane collaborated with HealthMine on this important study into the perspectives of older health consumers with a call-to-action for more personal, social and connected health.

Health XL will convene global health ecosystem stakeholders in Lake Nona, FL, to brainstorm health care financing, social determinants, and consumers. I'll weave these together with a view on the many patient lenses on health care value and affordability.

Jane will provide a keynote address, From Health Consumer to Health Citizen - How Tech Can Scale Humanity for health, with Microsoft's stakeholders in health care at their meeting in NYC. Jane will also participate in a lunch-time panel discussing results from McKinsey's 2019 study, Women in the Workplace.

It takes a village to address mental and behavioral health. Anxiety and depression are widespread co-morbidities with chronic conditions and new acute care diagnoses. How to deal? Get up-close-and-highly-personal with people via social determinants that matter to them, and make sure to bake trust into the process.

What a great list to be among these 19 health-tech influencers. They make for an engaging dinner party list! I have the best job in the world being able to collaborate with folks like these. Thanks, Scality!

One of three CEO "fireside chats" at Health 2.0 2019, Jane will interview Josh Stevens, President of DayTwo, an Israel-HQ'd company involved in nutrition, gut microbiomes, and chronic health management. The company is in expansion mode in the U.S., channeling through payors and employers.

Jane will be on the main stage talking about her book, HealthConsuming, in the context of the new wave of patient consumers. After her talk, she’ll join developers Rohan Dixit of Lief Therapeutics, Rachel Blank of Rory, Erin Trimble of 23andMe, and Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine, along with Health 2.0 Co-Founder and HIMSS Senior Advisor, Indu Subaiya.

The Doctors Answer curated a list to "get inspired" by 20 healthcare professionals changing the future of medicine. I'm gratified to be included with colleagues and friends like Dr. Eric Topol, David Harlow (one of my go-to health care lawyers), Dr. Arshya Vahabzadeh, the inspiring Regina Holliday, and Dr. Bob Wachter, among others.

Jane's book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen, was named a top medicine eBook "of all time" by BookAuthority. We're in good company here with Dr. Atul Gawande, Dr. Ronald Epstein and others on this humbling list.

Marc Iskowitz, the Executive Editor of MM&M, invited Jane to the Haymarket Media studio in NYC on 6 August 2019 to do a live podcast on Twitter to discuss her book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. The wide-ranging conversation included Jane sharing why she re-tooled as a health economist, what she learned from advising a biotech on social determinants of health, and how Amazon has primed health consumers.

Grateful to GlobalData analysts for including me on this list of top health tech influencers, with many valued colleagues and collaborators: Sherry Reynolds (@Cascadia), Alicia Staley (@Stales), Eric Topol (@EricTopol), Joe Babaian (@JoeBabaian), Evan Kirstel (@EvanKirstel), and John Nosta (@JohnNosta), among others I greatly admire and hope to work with.

Jane is delighted to be invited to speak at the Consumer Healthcare Products Association's (CHPA) annual conference with health care marketers, convening at the historic Hotel du Pont in Wilmington. We'll cover the growing retail health ecosystem and opportunities for self-care, health engagement, and digital health in the expanding IoT for health/care at home.

Josh Slatko interviewed Jane for an article in PharmaLive on a final rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that will require direct-to-consumer TV ads for prescription pharmaceuticals covered by Medicare or Medicaid to include the list price. A snippet of Jane's response: "HHS’ price disclosure plans don’t speak to personalized health or healthcare costs, given the fact that a retail list price for a prescription drug is not what the health consumer actually pays.“

Jane will brainstorm health care consumerism and "Amazon Prime-ing" at the Tea Leaves Health meeting on "Optimizing the Patient Journey" with stakeholders, at the beautiful Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. I'm thrilled that attendees will be receiving a copy of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen,thanks to Welltok and Teal Leaves Health!

Jane will once again be a judge for the Health Value Awards, at WHCC19 in Washington DC. The HVA are a joint project of Health Rosetta, the Validation Institute, and the Congress, recognizing health care organizations that consistently deliver higher value results, stronger health outcomes and/or lower costs than conventional approaches.

It will be a real treat to interview Dr. Toby Cosgrove on the big stage at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Telemedicine Association. Dr. Cosgrove was formerly CEO of the Cleveland Clinic and continues to be a force for innovation in health care.

Jane will address WebMD's Vision 20/20 stakeholder community on the growing retail health ecosystem and the critical role of and opportunity for vision care for consumers. We'll also be discussing the growing role of data empowering health consumers with folks from Mad*Pow, Klick Health, UnitedHealthcare, Satisfi Labs, and Advent Health's Nicholson Center.

More consumers are taking on DIY self-care tasks to stay well and lower medical costs. Jane will address these trends and their implications for the attendees of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association Annual Conference in Boca Raton, FL.

Jane will profile consumers' approaches to beauty, health and technology at CosmoProf, the annual global convention of the cosmetics industry meeting in Bologna, Italy. This international beauty fair attracts over 260,000 attendees and features the world's premier companies serving the health-beauty-wellness continuum.

Jane spoke with Brooke Chonko of Cerner on the patient- and consumer-facing innovations at HIMSS....and the importance of person-centered data and social determinants of health to fulfill the promise of technology for the home-as-health-hub. You can hear the beginning of Jane's podcast at the 8:05 minute mark if you want to skip to her segment.

Home is a low-cost site for health care and will be our health/care hubs in the not-too-distant future, I explain in this video of a conversation I had with the KB Home Projekt team in Henderson, Nevada, the week of CES 2019. I toured this new build concept home, baked with wellness in every room of the house, envisioned for aging-in-place and social communing. Watch the short video to hear my take on this emerging concept that can help lower medical costs while supporting people where they want to live and age well.

I'm looking forward to collaborating with Microsoft on taking part in their annual Health Innovation Awards. This year, we'll be looking at developers in categories to engage patients, empower care teams and employees, optimize clinical operational effectiveness, transform the care continuum, and use artificial intelligence and machine learning. I'm always inspired by the many creative and innovative entries in this competition, who come from all over the world to participate.

If you'll be at HIMSS, the premier annual conference on all-things-health-IT, let's meet up as I dive into new applications and implications for health consumers, patients, caregivers, and providers at Orlando's convention center.

Jane will be part of a panel on consumerization of digital health at HIMSS 2019 in Orlando. She'll brainstorm with Greg Orr from Walgreens, Nick Desai of Heal, and Peter Rasmussen from Cleveland Clinic.

Read MedCity News' coverage of Jane's conversation with Asheesh Saksena of Best Buy and David Inns of GreatCall who discussed their alliance to support people aging independently at home. Think: Geek Squad meets smart home meets home care and connected health. And don't forget about the potential for voice-technology, Inns noted...

The healthcare payor landscape is evolving, with public payors cover one-half of healthcare spending in the U.S. Jane will be discussing this transforming and challenging healthcare financing environment with stakeholders from Medecision, HIT innovators in Big Data, analytics, and engagement.

Feedspot put Health Populi on its annual list of 100 health blogs to follow in 2019. Thank you, Feedspot friends! Grateful to be part of this carefully-curated list of trusted sites for all-things-health.

If you're headed to CES to consider the future of health and healthcare, please get in touch so we can meet up. I'll be there all week, kicking the tires on shiny new healthcare things along with speaking, writing, and exploring connected health on and beyond the showroom floor...

Patients have morphed into health consumers, so they seek care, convenience, and value in healthcare. That's why giants like Philips and J&J, and new entrants like Great Call and Best Buy, are all designing and positioning to meet that new health consumer's lengthening list of demands. Jane will participate on two panels at the Digital Health Summit in Vegas, baby, on Wednesday 9th January, to brainstorm this fast-evolving phenomenon.

Great to be part of one of Healthcare Analytics News' most popular podcasts of 2018. Even more grateful to have collaborated with Colin Hung, Dr. Geeta Nayyar, and John Nosta, with Dr. Kevin Campbell at the helm. We brainstormed (and often arm-wrestled) how healthcare providers must advance digital transformation, challenged by new entrants like Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and a host of smart, hungry developers keen to participate in the dynamic health ecosystem. Link to our discussion on this page.

Greg Mathews, founder of the DataPoint podcast, invited Jane on the line to brainstorm the healthcare landscape in the context of Facebook, Google, Amazon and other data aggregators. HINT: HIPAA doesn't cut it, and other themes, discussed on the link. Come listen!

Juhan Sonin of Goinvo, a leading health-tech design firm, launched the Open Source Healthcare journal. The first issue includes features by Juhan, Dr. Eric Topol, and Jane. I'm honored and grateful to be part of Juhan's network, and share his vision of Open Source Health/care -- that "we must set healthcare free."

In my interview with Larry Dobrow, I discuss a return to "trusted nodes” where scientific fact trumps fake medical news. Larry writes:
"[Jane] recalls a recent lunch with the head of Italy’s minister of health. 'There are algorithms in social media in Italy misinforming people about vaccines. So now you’ve got what amounts to the head of Italy’s NIH tweeting pro-vaccine messages, which can’t be a bad thing. In healthcare at least, we still live in a fact-based world.'"

Jane will discuss consumers' growing embrace of "mobile first" platforms and how people are engaging in health, nutrition and weight loss via digital and mobile tools at the 9th Annual Obesity Conference in Philadelphia.

Health Populi was named a top 30 health IT blog by CDW, Thanks, CDW, for this great recognition!

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Jane will be on a European healthcare advisory-and-speaking journey in October - 10/27/2018

Jane will be convening in Bologna, Brussels, London and Dublin with health/care industry stakeholders to advise and speak about health consumers, health policy and food-as-medicine. Stay tuned to Health Populi for updates on learnings and insights gleaned through the journey.

Jane will be one of eight judges for the CHXD Commonwealth Design Challenge, vetting solutions to improve — even delight — consumers dealing with healthcare expenses, health savings accounts, and high-deductibles.

PwC's Health Research Institute interviewed Jane for research into their report on The New Health Economy in the Age of Disruption. “In a value-based environment, the more pieces of the supply chain that you can influence, the more you can impact utilization and cost, driving a win-win across providers, payers and patients,” I told the PwC team, among other learnings.

Jane will be talking about how EIR Healthcare's MedModular hospital room can help bend the healthcare cost curve and exceed health consumers' expectations at the project launch in Boothwyn, PA, the evening of 2nd October 2018.

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Jane will be talking about Slow Food and Slow Medicine in Philadelphia with leaders of Italy’s medical community - 10/03/2018

Jane's post on Slow Food and Slow Medicine celebrates her meeting with Walter Ricciardi of Italy's National Institute of Health and Dr. Cesare Galdini, President of the Institute Rizzoli in Bologna, Italy, visiting medical colleagues in Philadelphia. The meeting is hosted by the Consul General of Italy based in Philadelphia.

Richtopia's list of the top 100 most influential economists is out, naming me one of them once again. I'm humbled to be on a list with the likes of Stiglitz, Porter, Krugman, Frakt, and Sachs, among other mentors and gurus to whom I look for wisdom and knowledge.

Healthcare consumers are taking on more self-care tasks, engaging in retail health opportunities. Jane will brainstorm these at the GMDC conference on Health, Beauty and Wellness trends collaborating with suppliers to the industry.

Thank you, Feedspot, for naming Health Populi one of the top 100 blogs on the planet! I'm in good company with my dear friends at The Health Care Blog, WEGO Health, NPR Shots, among many other go-to sources for health and wellness.

In an article called, "Trump coaxes big promises from big pharma," Jane is quoted on the recent announcements from pharma companies who are reducing certain prescription drug prices through the end of 2018. ‘This is not a policy, this is self-regulation – these are ad hoc agreements that are verbal and can change,’ Jane explained. Check out the in-depth analysis by Rebecca Trager.

Join Jane, Accenture's Dr. Kaveh Safavi and Brian Kalis, and Lisa Suennen of GE Ventures, to brainstorm Accenture's 2018 Health-Tech Vision. This will be the third year Jane has worked with this team to identify key trends and futures for digital health, and it's always an engaging, spirited session.

I am grateful to be doing a keynote at Mad*Pow’s amazing Health Experience Design Conference, sharing my perspectives on the ever-morphing health consumer - sharing new data on the empowered patient and the endangered wallet.

Jane will participate in the Aetna Foundation/US News Healthiest Communities Facebook Live meet-up to discuss the role of social determinants of health in our towns and families, live from New York City on Friday 18th May.

PwC will re-convene its exciting 180° Health Forum, bringing together innovators, investors, new entrants and thought leaders in health, enabling conversations in an intimate "salon"-style environment. Jane is grateful to be included once again in the mix, to discuss how to leverage digital business models and platforms to build better consumer experiences.

Jane will serve as a judge for the Health Value Awards, a competition help during the World Health Care Congress 2018 in Washington DC. The Awards recognize health care purchasers, brokers and suppliers who deliver higher value for the continuum of clinical and financial risk management. Categories for the Awards include lifetime achievers (featuring luminaries like the Leapfrog Group, Warren Buffett, et. al.), outstanding benefit professionals, employers by size, payers and providers, among others.

One 20th March 2018, Jane addressed the potential (negative) impact of patient data sharing and trust in light of the revelations about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica's misuse of Americans' personal information. The Society for Participatory Medicine has re-published the essay, to ensure that Society members stay mindful of the news in light of the group's commitment to full-on patient engagement.

Peoples' last-best customer experience creates a new benchmark for their expectations. What's happening in retail and ecommerce is expected from the health care industry. Read how health care providers can leverage the enterprise health cloud for putting health into consumers' hands through well-designed apps in my latest paper written for Progress software.

For the fifth year in a row, Jane will be one of twenty Social Media Ambassadors at HIMSS annual conference in Las Vegas. Stay tuned to her tweets, LinkedIn updates, Huffington Post column, and daily Health Populi blog updates the week of 5th March 2018.

Information technology can support peoples' engagement and empowerment in healthcare. Jane posted a blog on the HIMSS website discussing the prospects for digital health tools and patient activation as part of the upcoming annual #HIMSS18 Conference, bringing together clinicians, payors, providers, innovators and patient advocates in Las Vegas.

I brainstormed consumers and healthcare with Saul Marquez, who hosts the Outcomes Rocket podcast, and the recording is now up and ready to hear. Saul and I covered a lot of ground on health care consumerism, digital technology, the healthcare industry, and health policy. Thanks for listening in!

Jane joined Fred Goldstein (@fsgoldstein) and Gregg Masters (2healthguru) on their PopHealth podcast, starting with value-based payment and moving into social determinants of health, digital health tools, and the post-CES/pre-HIMSS landscape for consumers and healthcare. Delighted to end on a joyful note, highlighting My Special Aflac Duck and Sproutel's innovative work on robotics, play, and kids' health. It's a fun and packed 30 minutes of digital health goodness with 2 valued colleagues of mine...

SAP gathered insights from various tech-and-health thought leaders for this publication, including Jane's on page 9. Read her thoughts on the non-tech challenges of implementing cloud computing, especially for health/care stakeholders.

Health care organizations recognize the importance of net neutrality in connecting health between providers, patients, and researchers. The George Washington School of Nursing picked up Jane's post on net neutrality written in response to the FCC's repeal of the rules.

At CES 2018, I'm gratified to be judging the Fitness, Wearables and Health Devices category at Showstoppers. Stay tuned to new-new innovations I think will be empowering, enchanting and useful for health consumers, caregivers, and patients coming out of the show.

The folks at Home Remedies for Life named Health Populi one of the top blogs "your body wants you to follow." They called us, "a great read for anyone who's looking for an in-depth look and knowledgeable read on healthcare." Thanks, Home Remedies!

Setting the context for a discussion on trends in food and eating in 2017, Nation's Best wrote, "Americans have always been fond of food. That’s no secret. But it runs much deeper than that, and there’s evidence to suggest that nearly all Americans are now foodies in at least some capacity. As Jane Sarasohn-Kahn explains in The Huffington Post, US consumers are taking a different approach to how they spend their hard-earned money. Rather than spending it on more “stuff,” they’re spending it on experiences, with food being a top experience-spending category."Check out their summary of trends, including the closing of the historic Carnegie Deli in NYC, Junior's on Instagram, the blurring of breakfast and lunch, the importance of authenticity and provenance for food, and Millennials' major food-spending.

I've covered the broad healthcare landscape in my health economics advisory work. One of my earliest papers was The Economics of Treating Tibial Fractures, co-written with Dr. James Heckman of Dartmouth-Hitchcock. The publication celebrates its 20th year since printed in the Bulletin of the Hospital for Joint Surgery in 1997. The work has since been cited in dozens of meta-analyses and research papers since published, more in the past several years as value-based and bundled payment for joint surgery is being adopted.

Jane will meet, fireside-chat style, with Amino CEO David Vivero, at the 11th annual Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, CA. This will be a déjà vu for us as we first met up at Health 2.0 early in Amino's start-up phase on a demo panel!

Jane will have a conversation with Microsoft's Chief Medical Office Dr. Simon Kos at the company's ENVISION meeting in Orlando, speaking about healthcare consumers and technology's role in health engagement.

I'm gratified and grateful that Onalytica named me a top digital health influencer, Here's the fun interview we did, exploring who influences me in and beyond health tech - from Dr. Atul Gawande to Pope Francis.

The Drug Store News feature on the future of the pharmacy features Jane's perspectives on health consumers taking on greater self-care at home and outside of the traditional healthcare system, supported by retail health -- in this case, the pharmacy and pharmacist who can support a patient managing chronic conditions in an integrated, continuous way.

Jane will attend the AHA's Leadership Summit to be the keynote speaker at the Equity of Health breakfast, addressing the social determinants of health, health disparities, and opportunities to solve the challenge in America's communities.

Jane will share perspectives on new healthcare consumers in the Post-Trump health economy at the Western Operations Conference of Prepaid Medical Service Plans, made up primarily of Blue Cross & Blue Shield plans in the Western US and Canada.

Jane brainstormed healthcare consumers at the CVS Health Innovation Summit, and Drug Store News covered the event. Thanks to DSN and the Mack Elevation Forum for inviting me to speak at this great meet-up with consumer health, wearable tech, social network platforms, and CVS Health team members.

Jane will visit with 211 San Diego to explore social care in the county and how this pioneering organization is using IT to integrate dozens of agency touch-points together for the benefit of San Diegans.

Jane is joining the National Advisory Council for the new Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement at GWU, the first meeting of which will be 4-5th May 2017 in Washington DC. The mission of the new Center is to advance policy and health of the public through education, research, media and public forums.

Jane will be researching the role of food as medicine for health in the world capital of Slow Food, Italy, and the growing evidence for food-as-medicine. Along the way, she'll explore the zero kilometre food movement, the Ospedale degli Innocenti hospital, those enterprising nuns who make aroma therapies, and take a few days of Easter and Passover holiday-days along the journey for some spiritual nourishment.

The HIMSS 2017 conference held in February 2017 was like Disneyworld for over 43,000 health IT wonks (like me). Spectrum Enterprises interviewed Colin Hung, Maxwell Stroud, and me for our perspectives on the meet-up. Read what Colin, Max and I said (hint: patients, AI, risk management, and data security rank high).

Jane shared her perspectives during the #HIMSS17 health IT conference with the IBM Watson Health team, discussing the benefits of cognitive computing for personal and public health and healthcare.
https://youtu.be/zrTm0xBB1wI

A long-time member of HIMSS, the largest health IT membership organization, Jane will be speaking about consumers and digital health, along with meeting with health IT innovators through the week of 19th February.

Administrative waste in American healthcare eats up as much as 30% of U.S. healthcare spending. Join Jane and Raynard Washington, PhD, MPH, Senior Manager of Research & Measurement at CAQH to discuss the latest findings of the Index Report which measures the health industry's migration from paper to digital transactions.

Jane was interviewed by NPR station KRCU in Missouri about the growing trend toward consumer DIY healthcare. “There is something big going on here, according to health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. And it’s a lot more than a quick-y cholesterol screening. She calls it DIY – do-it-yourself – health care. Sarasohn-Kahn says we’re at the beginning stages of a big paradigm shift. New business models, phone apps and technologies like Fitbit make it cheap and easy for people to get for themselves much of what they to depend on doctors for. get for themselves much of what they to depend on doctors for."

Jane will meet with Louisiana's hospital stakeholders to brainstorm the growing role of consumers in the state's healthcare landscape and opportunities for hospitals and health systems in a post-Trump healthcare environment.

Jane will be kicking the tires on all of the new digital health devices and spotting trends and themes through the first week of 2017, spending time with suppliers, experts, and thought leaders on all-things-health. Stay tuned for her tweets @healthythinker, posts on Health Populi, and Huffington Post columns throughout the event.

Jane will participate on a panel at the Digital Health Summit at CES 2017 on "Digital Health Delivers Personalized Power to the People" on 6 January 2017. She'll collaborate with Dr. Bettina Experton, the CEO of Humetrix; Dr. David Fabry, the VP of GN Hearing and the ReSound digital hearing device; and, Dr. Shai Gozani, CEO of Neurometrix, making of the Quell pain relief device.

The digital health community will convene at the Gaylord Hotel in greater Washington DC to brainstorm innovations for consumers, clinicians, and the health care ecosystem. Jane will participate as a social media contributor and participant.

In advance of the Connected Health Conference in Washington DC, Jane weighed in on trends in personal connected health as a social media expert. My money quote: "We aren't yet at a tipping point for chronic disease management [via digital health tools]. We're still stuck in 'Fitbit mode' for wellness."

Paul Krugman of the New York Times is #1. I'm humbled to have been named #47 of the top 100 influential economists in the world. I'm quite certain that Thomas Piketty (#53) and Robert Shiller (#54) are more influential than I am. But as it's Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for the recognition!

Jane will be judging the WEGO Health Hero awards. Health activist members of the WEGO Health community are all heroes: this event identifies some of the most influential, creative and inspirational members across many categories.

Dr. Harm Scherpbier (of Jefferson College of Population Health), Mark Scrimshire (of CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), Vincent Emanuele (of Wellcentive) and I will be on a panel addressing Population Health Informatics: Connecting Consumers to Care at the AMIA 2016 Annual Symposium in Chicago.

The 2017 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) will be previewing new-new things in New York City on 10th November. Jane will be meeting up with the digital health innovators and reporting out from the showroom floor, in Health Populi and The Huffington Post.

Jane will meet with members from the Virginia Hospital Association to share perspectives on the new health care consumer and implications for the state's hospitals, at the beautiful Homestead, Hot Springs, VA.

Following Jane's talk with the West Virginia Hospital Association on 30 September 2016, Dr. Cynthia Persily, CEO of Highland Hospital in Charleston, WV, wrote her CEO blog post about Jane's healthcare consumerism discussion.

I've participated in the annual Health 2.0 Conference every year since its inception in 2007, and I'll do the same this year. Looking forward to learning about the latest digital health innovations, and moderating a panel or two.

Walmart recently convened a Retail Health Summit in Bentonville, Arkansas, bringing together representatives from the broad landscape of retail health stakeholders. Jane keynoted the event, and her speech is summarized in this special report from Drug Store News.

Hear how clinics at CVS, Walmart, and other retail storefronts are compelling hospitals to re-think business models in the September 7, 2016, issue of Healthcare Finance News, featuring Jeff Lagasse's interview with Jane.

Food and exercise are the new medicine; loneliness is the new smoking; prevention is the new sustainability. Read seven pillars re-shaping health and healthcare, informed by my research and advisory work, in this informative supplement from Drug Store News.

An article I co-wrote in 1997 with Dr. James Heckman on the economics of using a novel technology to stimulate bone healing was quoted in a research paper published in the journal Nature, Efficacy of Electrical Stimulators for Bone Healing: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Sham-Controlled Trials. The section quotes, "The socioeconomic burden associated with bone healing complications such as delayed union or nonunion is substantial and includes direct treatment costs as well as personal and societal costs, such as lost wages, decreased productivity and delays returning to work."

Jane was interviewed by Drug Store News to talk about the future of primary care delivered in accessible, convenient, lower-cost, high quality settings -- central of which will be the community pharmacy. Read her remarks in this supplement to DSN, Retail Health 2027.

Jane will meet with hospital and health provider leaders from around Texas to discuss health care consumers at the state hospital association's governance conference, being held at the JW Marriott, San Antonio, TX.

Vericred, Inc., launched a transparency tool for prescription drugs to help people more effectively manage their pharmaceutical benefit plans. Jane is quoted in the press release, saying, "With patients bearing more out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs, the new personal health economics are compelling patients to become informed health consumers. These consumers need transparent, easy-to-use, helpful information on the price of prescription drugs and therapeutic alternatives."

Upcoming Events

Jane will brainstorm the future of health at the intersection of health care and technology with Lisa Suennen, Venture Valkyrie and Leader of Manhattan Digital and Technology Group, and Dr. Geeta Nayyar, prominent physician and nationally recognized leader in health care and technology, at AHIP’s annual Institute and Expo - virtual, on June 18th at 9 am.

The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) created a wonderful summary of CES 2020 in Las Vegas, which feels like nostalgic today in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's a link to the story, and at the bottom, a sweet reminder of my fellow authors and me, all featured in Gary's Book Club for #CES2020. Happy memory!

Jane will be donvene virtually with telehealth stakeholders to bolster the health care consumer message and opportunities at the ATA annual meeting that's -- appropriately! -- going online this year in the COVID-19 era.

I'm honored and gobsmacked to be named to this list of the top 100 economist-influencers in the world. I'm #53 on this list, after gurus like Michael Porter, Paul Krugman, Jeff Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, Ben Bernanke, et. al. Among the 100, there are 11 women economists of which I'm proud to be one.